[[File:Bogazici.jpg|frame|Bogazici University]]
=== OVERVIEW ===
[[File:BOUN Founders.jpg|thumb|right|Founders of Bogazici University]]
<div><br/></div><div>Boğaziçi University was founded in Istanbul,Turkey as Robert College in 1863 by Dr.Cyrus Hamlin,an educator, inventor, technician, architect and builder, and Mr. Christopher Rheinlander Robert, a well-known philanthropist and a wealthy merchant from New York. In March 1971, Rector John Scott Everton revealed the resolution passed on January 26, 1971, by the Board of Trustees to the effect that the Turkish government should be encouraged to establish an independent university as a successor to Robert College on either of the campuses. The merger was finalized in the summer of 1971. Today's South Campus of 118 acres, including buildings, the library, laboratories and all facilities and personnel, was passed on to the Turkish government, and on September 10, 1971, Bogazici University was officially established on what had been the Robert College campus for over one hundred years.</div><div><br/></div>
=== PROMOTING STUDENT INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP ===
<div><br/></div><div>In our university, promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship is on development stage. Turkey has a common belief of buildign your own company is a risk which is not necessary to take. Being an engineer is more valuable and meaningful than being an entrepreneur. But our university is more supportive to students to become entrepreneurs and according to the number of people who becomes successful entrepreneurs, Boğaziçi University is on the top. There are organizations There is a real effort to give students entrepreneurial mindset through Bright Entrepreneurship & Innovation Incubation Center, Management & Economics Club's Entrepreneurship committee, There are lots of successful entrepreneurs in the entrepreneurship ecosystem from Boğaziçi University but most of them </div><div><br/></div>